Mucilage bottle and bbush



T. J. SEARCY. MUCILAGE BOTTLE AND BRUSH. APPLICATION vFILED 1AN.26, 191e.

Patented Aug. l, 1916.

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IVI'UCILAGE BOTTLE AND BRUSH.

Specification or Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 1, 1916.

Application led January 26, 1916. Serial No. 74,431.

To all 'whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, THOMAS J. SEARCY,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Madison, in the county of Monroe and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements` in Mucilage Bottles and Brushes; and l do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in mucilage bottles and brushes and the principal object of the invention is to provide a device which is adapted to prevent the mucilage from evaporating and the brush from becoming stiff. and otherwise unserviceable.

A further object of the invention is to provide a novel form of mucilage spreader having a removable brush so that in event that one of the brushes becomes useless another may be substituted therefor without necessitating the throwing away of the entire stopper.

With these and other objects in View, the invention consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts which will be e fully set forth in the following specification 30 and accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a transverse sectional view through a mucilage bottle constructed in ac-l cordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the mucilage bottle. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional View on an enlarged scale showing the details .of construction of the device and Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view on line lof Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates as an entirety the mucilage container or bottle comprising a bottom wall 2 having the side walls 3 formed at its edgesa A suitable top 4 is provided and formed in one corner of the top is an opening surl an rounding which is the upwardly and inwardly extending neck or stem 5. The bottom wall 2 of the same corner is curved upwardly as at 6 to forma rocker so that the bottle may be tilted backwardly to cause the to liquid to engage and moisten the brush.

|The stopper for the bottle is designated generally by the numeral 6 and comprises the central tubularstem 7, the upper edge of which Hanges outwardly as at 8 and prod jects through the disk 9 having formed integral therewith the upwardly and inwardly extending arms 10 which terminate in the thumb pieces 11 by means of which the stopper may be placed in position or removed from the bottle. The lower end of thetube 7 is provided with a plurality of spaced slots 12 which extend inwardly from the end thereof and form fingers 13 for engaging and holding the vmucilage brush in place. A suitable opening is formed transversely in the cylinder 7 at a point slightly above the upper terminals of the slots 12 and a cotter pin extends through said opening and holds the disk 14 in place. The space between the disks 9 and 14 is lled by a suitable stopper or cork or similar material designated by the numeral 15 which tapers and or any other suitable material which is adapted to be clamped between the fin ers' 13 and in order to hold said brush in p ace a suitable ring 18 is slidably mounted overv said lingers so that when the same is forced downwardly the lingers will be compressed around the brush to tightly hold the same and prevent its displacement'. In order'to limit the downwardv movement of the ring 18 suitable stops 19 are formed on the fingers and it will thus be seen that the ring cannot be pushed entirely olf of the end thereof.

From the foregoing it will be apparent that a particularl simple'and efficient stopper is providedv for mucilage bottles which also carries a suitable brush and due to the fact that the brush and mucilage will be protected against the influence of the air it will be seen that the brush will at all times retain its flexibility, and should it at any time become unfit for use a new brush may be substituted without throwing away the entire stopper.

While in the foregoing there has been shown and described the preferred embodiment of this invention, itis to be understood that such changes may be made in the combination and arrangement of parts as will fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

l end of thecore, a linger hold formed integral with the disk, a cork surrounding the core immediately beneath 'the disk to form al stopper, said cork extending to a point mid- .way of the core, means to hold the cork in place, a closure within the upper-end of the core, spring lingers forming the lower end of the core, a brush adapted to, be held inl place in the core by the spring iingers, and a rin surrounding the core and adapted-to be shd downwardly on the spring fingers to force them into engagement .with the brush. v t

ln testimony whereof l ax my signature in presence of two witnesses. l'

THOMAS J. shaker@ Witnessesz S. H. FARRELL,

JOE. M. FORSYTH. j I 

